Vijay Karthik
Co-founder & CTO at Oodle AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVijay Karthik is a Co-founder and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of deep expertise building high-performance distributed systems and storage platforms. He led core architecture and performance efforts at Rubrik—driving metadata sync and job-dispatch frameworks that cut latencies and increased throughput by orders of magnitude—and now applies that operational rigor to Oodle. His background spans designing novel filesystem formats, range filters, and constant-time garbage techniques, as well as migrating and hardening distributed databases like CockroachDB through open-source contributions. Earlier roles at InMobi and Goldman Sachs honed his skills in large-scale recommendation and bidding systems, algorithmic optimization, and production tracing. Known for turning tracing insights into multi‑x performance improvements, he combines hands‑on systems design with product-focused leadership. He holds a top‑rank academic pedigree from IIT Madras and a track record of shipping measurable, repeatable improvements in complex, cross‑component systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasClass 10 and 12, Class 10 and 12 at Salwan Public School
Github Skills (41)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
visualization10
dashboard10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
distributed-systems10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
timestamps10
go10
prometheus10
sql10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rubrikinc/kronos
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Distributed Time Synchronization Service
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 3 years 2 months
isolationsynchronizationsynchronization-servicelatencydistributed-systems
mvijaykarthik/cockroach
Feb 2018 - Mar 2019
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native SQL database.
Contributions:6 PRs, 138 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 1 month
db2rdbmsmysqlsql-databasesql
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